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Rusty Rants
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Rusty Rants is a personal blog at rustyshelf.org about culture, hardware and programming. Since 2014, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “The Android Screen Fragmentation Myth”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite Rusty Rants posts on Android screen fragmentation, arguing that the 'countless screen sizes' problem is a fallacy, and on Apple and opinion-based tech debate.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- The Android Screen Fragmentation Myth2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-07
- It Just Works2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-10-01
What Hacker News says?
>This opinion is being perpetuated by a few people and it's just going everywhere. Well, you're attacking others' opinions for being opinions, and not facts, but your claims are nothing more than opinions too. Sorry, I don't know what your point is? Just to add my own anecdote, my dad recently asked that his macbook air be reformatted to make it 'fast' again. Meanwhile, the '08 PC that I'm using now is running Win8.…
Comment linking /2014/10/01/it-just-works/
on “Apple has lost the functional high ground”Submitted My Next Mac Mini as a story · 426 points
HN discussionAnyone that uses the excuse that there are "Countless screen sizes to worry about" makes me wonder if they even know what they're talking about when it comes to Android development. The developer of Pocket Casts says this is a fallacy: https://rustyshelf.org/2014/07/08/the-android-screen-fragmen...
Comment linking /2014/07/08/the-android-screen-fragmentation-myth/
on “ARCore: Augmented reality at Android scale”Submitted I/O Thoughts as a story · 323 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Android Screen Fragmentation Myth as a story · 146 points
HN discussionSubmitted It Just Works as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Android Screen Fragmentation Myth as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted How a 17 Year Old Russian Kid Stole My Minecraft Account as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple People, This Is Why Others Hate You as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2015: The Year of Android as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted How New Versions of Android Work as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Security by Deflection as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on Swift, From an Idiot as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hey, We Need to Talk as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rusty Rants: It Just Works as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sweet 16 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ResearchKit and Open Source as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted History Is Written by Storytellers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Android Screen Fragmentation Myth as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Here We Go Again (on being an Indie dev in 2014) as a story · 1 points
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